Wobbly Universe

Ray Tomes' random thoughts on life the universe and almost everything. The universe is nothing but a giant musical instrument - a standing wave which develops harmonic waves and each of these does the same.

Friday, February 02, 2007

I haven't been active here for a while for various reasons. Now I am continuing this blog under my own domain name at http://ray.tomes.biz/b2/index.php/a because that is easier for me.
Also, I have done a lot of blogging activity at http://arty-nz.stumbleupon.com/ and I find StumbleUpon a great resource as it has managed to keep out the riff-raff which so dominates so much of the internet.

Sunday, November 20, 2005

Cycles discussion forum

I haven't posted any messages to my blog for a while. The reason is partly that I got involved in other things. Until the 96 hour day is invented I guess that I will continue to not do everything that I might. Anyone one of the new things was setting up a forum for the discussion
of cycles in everything from geology and cosmology to biology, weather,
markets and physics.

For information about the cycles discussion forum go to http://cyclesresearchinstitute.org/bulletin.html

PS when searching on thre internet for "cycles" about 95% of the pages
found are motor cycles or bicycles. This is about the other kind -
economic cycles and other fairly repetitive events. :-) Ray

Saturday, May 14, 2005

(almost) everything is expanding!

On 5-November-2005 I put up a web page titled:
(almost) everything is expanding!
which showed that the GPS measurements of continental drift
clearly had a strong bias towards the earth itself expanding
as you can see for yourself there. According to most cosmologists
the expansion of the universe does not apply at this scale. Oops!

Today I received an email from V Guruprasad who had already
been thinking along similar lines before me and thanking me for
the GPS station analysis. At the above page it has links to his
published papers and web site. Keep it up Prasad!

Friday, May 06, 2005

Low Frequency Radio Astronomy From Space

I am interested in developments in low frequency radio astronomy.
It is necessary to go to space to extend the range of observation
because the lower frequencies cannot penetrate to the surface
of the earth. The article
Low Frequency Radio Astronomy From Space
states in part:
"The opening of a new spectral window for astronomical
investigations has always resulted in major discoveries,
significant insights into astrophysical processes, and an
enrichment of our understanding of the universe. Interferometric
space or lunar based arrays for imaging the entire sky
below 30 MHz will cover a frequency range which is totally
inaccessible or extremely difficult to observe from the
ground due to ionospheric absorption and scattering. This is
a region of the electromagnetic spectrum which is essentially
unexplored by astronomy but which, at ~106 Hz, is likely to
display phenomena as different from those at centimeter
radio wavelengths (~109 Hz) as centimeter radio
phenomena are from infrared (~1012 Hz), infrared are
from the ultraviolet (~1015 Hz), or ultraviolet are from
the X-ray (~1018 Hz)."
My interest is partly because cosmologists claim that there are
411 photons per cubic centimetre in the universe. This remarkably
precise figure comes from measurements of the CMBR (Cosmic
Microwave Background Radiation). However this ignores the fact
that over the range from 10^23 Hz to 10^6 Hz the no. of photons
per cubic centimetre grows by a factor of 10^15 and looks a lot
like it intends to keep doing this at lower frequencies. See
background radiation intensity for a graph.
With the new space based measurements I predict that the flux
will continue to grow at lower frequencies and that the 411 photons
per cc of space will ultimately be shown to be wrong by an incredibly
large factor.
Actually I don't think that there are any "photons" in flight at all.
Photons are only a useful concept at the time of emission and
the time of absorption of e/m energy - there are no photons
in flight, just the continuous development of the e/m fields.

Tuesday, May 03, 2005

Waves logo

I designed the wave logo shown here for my web site which
now resides at http://ray.tomes.biz and is mainly about cycles
and the harmonics theory with some other random stuff
such as some art and champagne wire sculpture.

Unless I tell about the design, no-one will every know...

The three waves in red, green and blue are in the exact
proportion of 3:4:5 in frequency. These frequencies are
the correct relative frequencies for the three colours shown.
Also, they are the frequencies of a major chord in music
such as G-E-C. Lastly, 3:4:5 are the proportions of the
famous right angled triangle of pythagoras who was also
the founder of the mathematical basis of music and
harmonics.

Sunday, May 01, 2005

Is global warming caused by humans?

There is little doubt that humans have caused a massive
increase in CO2 levels in the atmosphere since the start
of the industrial revolution. However there is doubt as to
whether this has anything to do with global warming.

The above graph shows that the length of the sunspot
cycle (inverted) has a very close correlation to the northern
hemisphere temperature fluctuations. Actually the severity
of sunspot cycles would be a better measure, but the
records are not so consistent as the period because the
records were more sparce and the instruments not as good
in the 1700s.

It seems then that a decent proportion of global warming
is attributable to the Sun and not humanity. This does not
mean that we are not having or will not have an effect or
that we should be careless.

Another important question is whether global warming will
last very long given that an ice age is due any time.

Every 7th ocean wave is bigger

Some years ago I visited my friend Mountain Man in Oz.
You might not guess from his name that he is a surfie.
Watching the waves while he surfed, I checked out that
the old story that every 7th wave is bigger is true.
Also, as he told me, super big waves come at intervals
of about 20 minutes.

The above graph shows data that Pete and I got from
the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory. It shows clearly that
waves have a main period of about 12 to 13 seconds
and that there is a cycle of 7 or 8 waves.

Lightning does strike twice (and more) in the same place

The diagram shows that lightning has repeated flashes at
rates of 8 and 15 times per second. The interval 1/8 of a
second is the time for electromagnetic waves to pass
around the earth once and return to the starting point.
Oscillations of 8 per second due to this fact where first
theorised and then detected by Schumann and so it is
called the Schumann resonance.

Although it is not an accepted idea, I think that this
frequency of oscillation is instrumental in causing the
development of life forms (such as human) with brain
wave frequencies of a similar rate.

Once we have this connection then we can understand
why there are more accidents when lower frequency
waves are present and why people's reaction times are
faster or slower according to electromagnetic fields
that oscillate slightly faster or slower than the Schumann
resonance.

Traffic Light Cosmetics - humour

"The longest spell spent oblivious to traffic lights whilst applying make up
was one of 1 hr 51 mins 38 secs by Miss J. Dobson at a road junction in the
centre of Preston on the 1st August 1975. Miss Dobson, a piano teacher,
beautified herself through 212 cycles of the light, creating a tailback of
irate motorists stretching 28 miles towards Leeds."

Part of what is funny for me is the great accuracy of the time. No-one
starts measuring the time at the traffic lights; they only notice after
some time that the person isn't going. Anyway, last year we experienced
similar long queues in GB and so the story has some credibility.

Fergus' own
site contains photography (see the kites above), poetry,
writing on many issues and his pet project is making animated
mathematical functions. These include ones with many dials
that can be twiddled to see what happens. Lots of fun!

Vipassana meditation and the Buddha's teaching

Quoted from S N Goenka (shown in picture) when asked about the Buddha's
teaching of Vipassana:

"When I began to learn Vipassana meditation, I became convinced that
Buddha was a not a founder of religion, he was a super-scientist. A
spiritual super-scientist.

When he teaches morality, the point is, of course, there that we are
human beings, living in human society, and we should not do anything
which would harm the society. It’s quite true. But then—and it’s as a
scientist he’s talking here—he says that when you harm anybody, when you
perform any unwholesome action, you are the first victim. You first harm
yourself and then you harm others. As soon as a defilement arises in the
mind, your nature is such that you feel miserable. That is what
Vipassana teaches me."

See http://www.dhamma.org for more
information about Vipassana and the 100 centres around the world where
10-day courses by S N Goenka are taught.

Let there be light - another good T-shirt

Multiples of a week show up in orbital periods

Now that so many moons have been discovered around the other planets
there is quite a decent sample, when included with the planets, to look
for any tendency to quantisation or periodicity.

The method used is by Kotov. Test values are used to find values that
are most nearly multiples or fractions of the values known. The Y-axis
shows how well the data fit to the test value. In this graph, test
values from 10 to 1000 days are used and show that moons and planets
prefer to orbit in multiples or fractions of values near 14, 28, 84 and
252 days and others. Note that these periods are 2, 4, 12 and 36 weeks,
a nice set of harmonics.